Woman killed by train identified

INGLESIDE — Authorities on Friday identified a woman who was killed when a ladder attached to a Metra train struck her as she sat near the tracks.

Ann Cunningham, 47, of the 35000 block of Wilson Boulevard in Round Lake, was killed early Thursday while sitting along tracks near Rollins Road and Blackhawk Avenue in Ingleside, authorities said.

The engineer aboard the northbound train said he saw Cunningham around 2 a.m. and sounded the horn, said Lake County Sheriff's Sgt. Gary Govekar. She looked up in the direction of the train, Govekar said, but apparently did not move out of the way. A ladder attached to the train struck her. She was pronounced dead at the scene.